(Been a week or so since the last post but I haven't burnt out with blogging yet - I was on vacation over the July 4th weekend and totally offline in and around a small town called Pullman in south-eastern Washington.)
In a previous post I described...

In the previous post of this series, I covered the system table checks that have to be done before anything else can be checked by CHECKDB. Now that I've described pages , extents , IAM chains/allocation units and the major allocation bitmaps , in this...

I've been sitting and thinking a lot about guarantees this morning while drinking coffee in the debilitating heat here (85 degrees at 11am) and things get more complicated the more I think about it, so time to stop and post some thoughts.
Over the...

Totally off-topic post today. We recently had a private tour of the excellent Woodland Park Zoo here in Seattle. While we were there, I had the opportunity to meet the ultimate in flesh-and-blood scale-up technology...
And as you can see, it was...